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Science 6 February 1981:
Vol. 211. no. 4482, pp. 600 - 601
DOI: 10.1126/science.6779378
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Science, Vol 211, Issue 4482, 600-601
Copyright © 1981 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Oxidation of elemental selenium to selenite by Bacillus megaterium

SU Sarathchandra and JH Watkinson

A strain of Bacillus megaterium isolated from soil has been found to oxidize elemental selenium in laboratory cultures to selenite and a trace of selenate (< 1 percent of the selenite). This observation represents an important but hitherto unreported oxidative step in the biological selenium cycle.




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